Cracking the Heart of Stone
DG32173
Sarah: well … everyone liked my "A Christmas Wish" one-shot so much and asked for a full fanfic, a prequel, or a sequel based around it, so here's the prequel/sequel combined fanfic. Yes, combining the prequel and sequel into one. At the end of one of the later chapters, I will let you know when it becomes the sequel part.
DISCLAIMER:
Sarah: um … (has FBI agent holding gun to back of head while more are pointing guns at her beloved Gameboy SP) I kinda forgot to do this in "A Christmas Wish" so here it is! IDON'TOWNTHEINUYASHACAST/ANIME/MANGA! (FBI agents go bye-bye) Thank God Almighty! It's safe! (hugs Gameboy then plays YYH: Tournament Tactics.) Here's the fic.
Inuyasha cast, YYH cast, and random peoples around world: (sweatdrops and anime falls all around)
SUMMARY
Inuyasha takes Kagome on a trip around the world. Then he breaks her heart and she runs back to Tokyo and seeks shelter in the home of Sesshomaru. During her stay with Sesshomaru, she slowly falls in love with the icy youkai. Can she crack his heart of stone to show him what life truly is like? Or will her efforts be crushed when Inuyasha shows up to try to win her back?
NOTE
(Author notes)
"Singing"
Scene change
POV change
Memories
Scene change in memories
INDEX
If it's not Japanese, I'll put the language like this note is. Otherwise, assume it's Japanese. The Index is in alphabetical order!
Inu: dog
Nani: what?
Youkai: demon
Youki: demon energy
Prologue
Around the World
"Sesshomaru! Can you believe she actually agreed to go with me!" Inuyasha cries excitedly, rushing around his room to pack a bunch of clothes, some snacks, and a lot of other necessities for his upcoming trip around the world with Kagome while Sesshomaru watches him from the doorway.
"Hardly," the elder inu youkai drawls.
"You're just jealous!" Inuyasha says, not letting his brother's words and attitude get to him and bring down his hyperly happy mood.
"Jealous? Of you? Che, not on your life," Sesshomaru says, scowling at Inuyasha. "Why would I be jealous of you anyways?"
Inuyasha grins. "Cause you could never convince Kagome to travel with you and I did!" he says. Sesshomaru hates it when Inuyasha is right. He really, really hates it when Inuyasha is right, rare as it may be. He never was able to convince Kagome to give up staying in one place until she grows old and dies to travel to world. Somehow, Inuyasha had managed to do so. "See? I'm right and you know it!" Inuyasha says, taking his silence as an affirmative. Which it had not been.
Before either of them could say another word, a soft "excuse me" comes from behind Sesshomaru. They turn to see Kagome. She smiles. "Eh, I was just gonna say that the plane leaves in about two and a half hours, Inuyasha," she says. "So you might want to hurry." She turns to Sesshomaru and bows. "Thank you for letting me and Souta stay in you home after the accident, Sesshomaru," she says softly, referring to the fire about a month ago that had destroyed the shrine that had been her home and killed her mother, grandmother, and grandfather. Only she and Souta, her brother, had survived; and that was only because they had gone to town to get some groceries for dinner.
He shrugs and leaves the room, not wanting to talk to her, and definitely not wanting to talk about the fire. He had yet to fulfill his promise to her of finding out who the arsonist was, for that was the only way the shrine could have burned down. It was too well protected, spiritually and physically, from fires on the inside. He and Inuyasha had added their own youki protections as well, for safety precautions. So it would be next to impossible for an internal fire to have burnt it down.
He doesn't realize that Kagome's eyes follow him as he walks down the hall. Her eyes don't leave him until he closes the door to his room. She sighs in confusion and turns to see Inuyasha watching her intently. "Nani?" she asks.
He shakes his head. "Nothing," he says. He grabs his three large suitcases. "Come on, it takes an hour and a half to get to the airport, and another forty-five minutes to get through security."
She grabs her knapsack, backpack, and single small suitcase and follows him down the hall. "Coming," she says. As she passes by Sesshomaru's room, she glances at the closed door sadly. Now, she won't be able to say the goodbye she had wanted to. She sighs sadly and continues after Inuyasha to his car. Sesshomaru's bedroom windows face the front of the house, in the center of the expansive mansion on the third floor. She doesn't sense his eyes watching her movements from the second she exits the front door until Inuyasha's car is out of even his sight. Sesshomaru hadn't wanted to say goodbye to her … not now, not when he is finally beginning to sort out his mixed feelings for her. But now, with her gone for heaven only knows how long, he really wishes he had done so. He really does.
A tap at his door snaps him out of his thoughts as a small, child-like face pokes in. "Sesshomaru-sama, is Kagome ever coming back?" the child asks.
He sighs. "I don't know," he says, telling her younger brother the truth. It would do more harm than good to the boy to say either yes or no, so he speaks the truth.
Well, that's it for the prologue. Chapter 1 will start off with Kagome and Inuyasha, about four and a halfyears after this leaves off!